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Originally Posted by msxyz
That looks like a soviet Romeo submarine or a similar class.
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That is a Soviet Foxtrot class boat.
Interestingly the first modern subs (The Holland boats) used a cigar shape for greater underwater performance much like the ones today, it was Simon Lake (John Holland's competitor) who came up with the idea of a sub that was faster on the surface and had a surface ship like bow- this design philosophy became the Fleet Type Submarine. It wasn't until the 1950's with the USS
Albacore that submarines returned to Holland's origional design philosophy.
(Don't take the above paragraph as disparaging of Simon Lake, he had many good ideas including the Conning Tower, Dive Planes and the Rotating/Retractable Periscope.)